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A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. Maynard J. Keenan A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories. Maynard J. Keenan Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music. Maynard J. Keenan After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. Maynard J. Keenan And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. Maynard J. Keenan Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them. Maynard J. Keenan Because as an only child, you have your own little world. Maynard J. Keenan But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. Maynard J. Keenan Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool. Maynard J. Keenan Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music. Maynard J. Keenan For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. Maynard J. Keenan I always knew that I wanted to be an artist. Maynard J. Keenan I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something. Maynard J. Keenan I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium. Maynard J. Keenan I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead. Maynard J. Keenan I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love. Maynard J. Keenan I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do. Maynard J. Keenan I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. Maynard J. Keenan I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. Maynard J. Keenan I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. Maynard J. Keenan I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear. Maynard J. Keenan I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. Maynard J. Keenan I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us. Maynard J. Keenan I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure. Maynard J. Keenan If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. Maynard J. Keenan If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common. Maynard J. Keenan Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. Maynard J. Keenan Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. Maynard J. Keenan Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. Maynard J. Keenan Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even. Maynard J. Keenan Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect. Maynard J. Keenan The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal? Maynard J. Keenan There is still a future with music, because people want music. Maynard J. Keenan There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist. Maynard J. Keenan We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. Maynard J. Keenan We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool. Maynard J. Keenan

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